Microscopic reversibility of quantum open systems

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/45/12/125001MaRDI QIDQ5388939zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Takaaki Monnai

Publication date 24 April 2012

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1982

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

Abstract: The transition probability for time-dependent unitary evolution is invariant under the reversal of protocols just as in the classical Liouvillian dynamics. In this article, we generalize the expression of microscopic reversibility to externally perturbed large quantum open systems. The time-dependent external perturbation acts on the subsystem during a transient duration, and subsequently the perturbation is switched off so that the total system would thermalize. We concern with the transition probability for the subsystem between the initial and final eigenstates of the subsystem. In the course of time evolution, the energy is irreversibly exchanged between the subsystem and reservoir. The time reversed probability is given by the reversal of the protocol and the initial ensemble. Microscopic reversibility equates the time forward and reversed probabilities, and therefore appears as a thermodynamic symmetry for open quantum systems.

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